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Re: [PATCH] Resurrect ns32k
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Gilbert Coville <gcoville at gc dot org>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 12:53:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Resurrect ns32k
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Hi Gilbert,
> I am interested in the old National Semiconductor ns32k architecture and
> saw that ns32k has been moved into the obsolete list in binutils-2.28.
> "Support will be REMOVED in the next major release of BINUTILS, unless a
> maintainer comes forward."
>
> I'd like that to not happen.
>
> Although the support for ns32k is not perfect, there's a lot of good
> stuff there that I don't want to see removed. I'm stepping up to keep
> it alive. My hope is to eventually improve ns32k support and fix some
> of the bugs and deficiencies I've seen using it so far.
>
> I think an important first step is to remove it from the disabled list.
>
> I'm looking forward to any comments and suggestions you have for me.
Are you also offering to be a maintainer for this target ?
Which versions are you interested in preserving - the netbsd/openbsd version
and/or the mach-o version ?
Cheers
Nick